The ImpactPHL Conversation session in August will explore the impact investing opportunities to support returning citizens.
Philadelphia is moving into new systems for how to navigate the re-entry process with fair chance hiring practices that allow returning citizens to expand their employment opportunities, build their entrepreneurial skills, and the importance of networks that connect across race, background and wealth in ways that better stitch the top to the bottom as tools that make positive change.
During this session, you will look at what investors can do to learn about investments that support fair chance hiring across many companies, how to transition support to entrepreneurial training for the inside and how to get investments connected by well trained returning citizens who are impactful entrepreneurs. This session will frame the role of impact investors in the re-entry process with the value of a network and what this may change in a long history of an unfair incarceration process.
Join ImpactPHL to hear these speakers in their personal stories and experience in their growth from re-entry, to becoming an impact entrepreneur and building systems to expand fair chance hiring practices and returning citizen entrepreneurs.
- EL Sawyer, Philadelphia-based filmmaker
- Quan Huyhn, Executive Director, Defy Ventures
- Chris Bentley, Founder and Managing Principal, De-Carceration Fund
- Michael Cosack (moderator), Board Chair, ImpactPHL